Born in Middletown, Connecticut, William Ranney devoted his career to
depicting the West. As a young man, he apprenticed to a tinsmith
in Fayetteville, North Carolina, having abandoned his study of art in
New York City after the death of his sea-captain father. To find
adventure, he joined in 1836 the Texas army in its fight for
independence against Mexico, and this period, very brief, was his only
experience on the frontier. It is likely that he met trappers on
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